Peter Andre wooed Casey Batchelor because she looked like Katie Price
She’s the Celebrity Big Brother glamour model obsessed with Lee Ryan.
He’s the besotted new dad with a whiter than white image.
But as Peter Andre confesses he’s hooked on CBB, we can disclose for the first time the full details of his romance with Casey Batchelor, 29 – including how he fell for her because she looked like Katie Price!
In a Now exclusive, we reveal that Pete had an intense fling with the glamour model, swearing her to secrecy over their late-night Jacuzzi trysts – until she dumped him for being ‘boring’.
A close friend of Peter, 40, tells us: ‘He’d sneak Casey in and out of his house.
‘No one knew – not even his manager Claire Powell.
‘He said Casey was a nice girl and really good in bed.
‘She’d send him sexy pics all the time – she behaved the same with him as she has with Lee.
‘Pete never sent her a naughty message back, but she’d text him loads and he’d text her when he wanted a cheeky picture or to meet up.’
A source close to Casey adds: ‘When he called she’d have to sneak into his home [in West Sussex] in the dead of night and they’d go in the Jacuzzi. She was made to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
‘He was scared about it getting out because there was huge pressure on him to date again after his split from Katie.’
The affair spanned two months in spring 2011, after Pete‘s split from Frank Lampard‘s ex Elen Rivas.
The pair met through a pal and there was an instant attraction.
But Casey‘s BFF and fellow model Michelle Porterfield, 33, tells Now the CBB star soon realised Pete‘s booty calls weren’t enough for her.
Peter Andre‘s reps declined to comment.
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